The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.
Peter Drucker
Executives owe it to the organization and to their fellow workers not to tolerate nonperforming individuals in important jobs.
Peter Drucker
Management by objectives works if you first think through your objectives. Ninety percent of the time you haven't.
Peter Drucker
Do not believe that it is very much of an advance to do the unnecessary three times as fast.
Peter Drucker
The corporation is the master, the employee is the servant. Because the corporation owns the means of production without which the employee could not make a living, the employee needs the corporation more than vice versa.
Peter Drucker
Forecasting is not a respectable human activity and not worthwhile beyond the shortest of periods.
Peter Drucker
Institutions mistake good intentions for objectives. They say health care; that's an intention, not an objective.
Peter Drucker
More business decisions occur over lunch and dinner than at any other time, yet no MBA courses are given on the subject.
Peter Drucker
The corporation is the “master”, the employee is the “servant”. Because the corporation owns the means of production without which the employee could not make a living, the employee needs the corporation more than vice versa.
Peter Drucker
Companies have three responsibilities: 1) make a profit, 2) satisfy employees, and 3) be socially responsible.
Peter Drucker